Recorded music in American life: the phonograph and popular memory, 1890-1945

Two "circles of resonance": audience uses of recorded music

"The Coney Island crowd": the phonograph and popular recordings before World War I

"His master's voice": the Victor Talking Machine Company and the social reconstruction of the phonograph

The phonograph and the evolution of "foreign" and "ethnic" records

The gendered phonograph: women and recorded sound, 1890-1930

African American blues and the phonograph: from race records to rhythm and blues

Economics and the invention of hillbilly records in the south

A renewed flow of memories: the Depression and the struggle over "hit records"

Popular recorded music within the context of national life.